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Compromised file in Vietnamese Language Pack for Firefox 2
blog.mozilla.comFound 8 days, 3 hours, 13 minutes, and 42 seconds ago
Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code
feeds.feedburner.comFound 8 days, 3 hours, 54 minutes, and 33 seconds agoIn response to the later discovery of the latent Trojan code by anti-virus software, Mozilla pulled the language pack and announced it would begin scanning all add-ons whenever they update their virus signatures, not just when add-ons are originally posted, according to a entry on the Mozilla security blog.
Studios win $100 million judgment against TorrentSpy
news.comFound 8 days, 6 hours, 1 minute, and 39 seconds agoIn a major win for Hollywood studios, a California federal judge has ordered TorrentSpy to pay some $110 million in damages for infringing the copyright of thousands of films and TV shows through its BitTorrent search engine. "The demise of TorrentSpy is a clear victory for the studios and demonstrates ...
Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code
feeds.wired.comFound 8 days, 58 minutes, and 39 seconds agoMozilla, the maker of the open source Firefox browser, is redoubling its efforts to check user created add-ons for viruses and Trojans after it discovered that a language pack on its official add-on page had been infected for months with rogue code, the organization reported Wednesday. Starting in mid-Feburary, ...
Hollywood awarded $110m against TorrentSpy
theregister.co.ukFound 8 days, 3 hours, 27 minutes, and 51 seconds agoOperators of the once-popular TorrentSpy tracker have been ordered to pay more than $110m to Hollywood for facilitating illegal downloads of movies and television shows.
mashable.com
TorrentSpy already shut its doors earlier this year, and even though the company's founder Justin Bunnell insisted that it's trying legal loss was not behind the decision to close down the site, it appeared to be the only feasible reason for TorrentSpy moving towards oblivion. ...
Found 8 days, 2 hours, 32 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
arstechnica.com
The admins of isoHunt are fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the MPAA, arguing that it and other BitTorrent tracker sites should be treated no differently than a search engine. After all, isoHunt only provides links to content-just like Google. ...
Found 8 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
slyck.com
Wins $110 million judgment.
Found 8 days, 2 hours, 32 minutes, and 39 seconds ago
newteevee.com
Hollywood studios won legal victory against file sharing today, as a judge awarded a $111 million judgment against BitTorrent site TorrentSpy for copyright infringement. But the MPAA, which represented the studios, shouldn't spend that money yet. ...
Found 7 days, 23 hours, 29 minutes, and 59 seconds ago
feeds.feedburner.com
Torrentspy Dinged $111 Million in MPAA Lawsuit
Found 149 days, 7 hours, 36 minutes, and 17 seconds ago
crunchgear.com
In what can only be termed a crushing defeat, leading torrent site TorrentSpy has been ordered to pay more than $110 million to the MPAA by a US District judge. It's been a losing battle following TorrentSpy's decision in March to make a stand by erasing a huge amount of MPAA-requested data they considered private.
This isn't the time for sites like TorrentSpy to win cases like this - that's still a ways off. In the meantime, though, their best course of action is to do what TorrentSpy and the Pirate Bay have been doing, even if that means you get hammered with an unfathomably huge fee.
Found 8 days, 3 hours, 27 minutes, and 46 seconds ago
cincomsmalltalk.com
Because my neighbor downloading an episode of "Bones" via Bittorrent is just as bad as running a crack house (this is in LA):
In an ordinance just adopted, the five-member board is declaring that piracy "substantially interferes with the interest of the public in the quality of life and community peace, lawful commerce in the county, property values, and is detrimental to the public health, safety, and welfare of the county's citizens, its businesses and its visitors." Can someone send the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors a thesaurus, with the phrase "sense of proportion" underlined?
Found 7 days, 5 hours, 16 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
isc.sans.org
I stole the headline directly from Mozilla. I am writing this diary entry for our readers in Vietnam. Apparently the Vietnamese Language pack for Firefox 2 has been compromised. About 16,667 downloads of the Vietnamese Language Pack have been downloaded since November of 2007, so the impact may or may not be significant. So be wary. If you have downloaded the Vietnamese Language Pack, you should know who you are, go to Mozilla's website and read all about it.
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Joel Esler
http://www.
Found 8 days, 2 hours, 11 minutes, and 13 seconds ago
artsjournal.com
Los Angeles Declares Digital Piracy A "Public Nuisance", Passes Big Fines - Wired 05/08/08
Found 7 days, 1 hour, 14 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
gigalaw.com
Read the article: CNET News.com
| Posted: 5/07/2008 08:25:00 PM | Permalink
Found 8 days, 2 hours, 52 minutes, and 13 seconds ago
msmvps.com
Thanks to Susan for the heads up...
Cite: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/05/07/compromised-file-in-vietnamese-language-pack-for-firefox-2/
Cite: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432406
Anybody who downloaded and installed the Vietnamese language pack ***since 18 February*** will have got an infected copy. Symptoms include the display of unwanted advertising.
Mozilla notes that because only " 16,667 total downloads of the Vietnamese language pack since November 2007 " they consider that the impact on users will be "limited" - well, it may be limited in Mozilla's eyes, but I suspect that those affected
It is staggering that the infected file was in situ and being distributed for over two and a half months.
Found 8 days, 1 hour, 2 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
ecyrd.com
So, if you share files, the LA County Board of Supervisors says that it's okay to take away your house for up to one year, because piracy is a public health hazard.
Come on - it's just kids sharing files! It's not like they're crystal meth users or other people who are really dangerous to their neighbourhood. This is really getting insane.
(Via /. )
Found 5 days, 14 hours, 40 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
techzonez.com
Full story: Wired News
Found 8 days, 4 hours, 56 minutes, and 39 seconds ago
iscxml.sans.org
I stole the headline directly from Mozilla. I am writing this diary entry for our readers in Vietnam. Apparently the Vietnamese Language pack for Firefox 2 has been compromised. About 16,667 downloads of the Vietnamese Language Pack have been downloaded since November of 2007, so the impact may or may not be significant. So be wary. If you have downloaded the Vietnamese Language Pack, you should know who you are, go to Mozilla's website and read all about it.
--
Joel Esler
http://www.
Found 8 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
blog.wired.com
Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code
Found 8 days, 10 minutes, and 48 seconds ago
oncomputerstips.blogspot.com
Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code
Found 8 days, 10 minutes, and 46 seconds ago
bigblog.com
Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code
Found 7 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
digitalalchemy.tv
In a stunning turn, TorrentSpy has lost a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against it by six Hollywood movie studios. Once the most popular BitTorrent site in the world, TorrentSpy, which shut down in March, now finds itself facing a $111 million judgment. The owner of TorrentSpy, Justin Bunnell's Valence Media, was fined the maximum penalty of $30,000 for each of the 3,700 movies and television shows that users were able to download through the site. It is now initiating bankruptcy proceedings in Britain.
Found 7 days, 17 hours, 44 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
dailydoseofip.blogspot.com
Wired Article: LINK
Found 7 days, 15 hours, 3 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
hardocp.com
A U.S. District Judge in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of the Motion Picture Association of America. The courts ordered TorrentSpy to pay $111 million and to permanently close up shop.
U.S. District Judge Florence -Marie Cooper in Los Angeles, ruling in a case brought by the Motion Picture Association of America, said site operator Justin Bunnell and associates must pay the maximum $30,000 for "each of the 3,699 infringements shown." The case, producing what is among the largest fines in copyright history, was bolstered after the MPAA allegedly paid a hacker $15,000 for internal TorrentSpy e-mails and correspondence.
Found 7 days, 14 hours, 32 minutes, and 42 seconds ago
enthusiast.hardocp.com
A U.S. District Judge in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of the Motion Picture Association of America. The courts ordered TorrentSpy to pay $111 million and to permanently close up shop.
U.S. District Judge Florence -Marie Cooper in Los Angeles, ruling in a case brought by the Motion Picture Association of America, said site operator Justin Bunnell and associates must pay the maximum $30,000 for "each of the 3,699 infringements shown." The case, producing what is among the largest fines in copyright history, was bolstered after the MPAA allegedly paid a hacker $15,000 for internal TorrentSpy e-mails and correspondence.
Found 7 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
tech.slashdot.org
An anonymous reader writes "Wired.com is reporting that the Firefox browser has been unknowingly distributing a trojan with the Firefox Vietnamese language pack. Over 16,000 downloads of the pack occurred since being infected. This highlights a risk on relying on user-submitted Firefox extensions, or a lack of peer-review of the extensions, many of which receive frequent upgrades."
Found 7 days, 12 hours, 40 minutes, and 36 seconds ago
techgage.com
The case, producing what is among the largest fines in copyright history, was bolstered after the MPAA allegedly paid a hacker $15,000 for internal TorrentSpy e-mails and correspondence. "This substantial money judgment sends a strong message about the illegality of these sites," MPAA Chairman Dan Glickman said in a statement.
Source: Wired
Found 7 days, 10 hours, 36 minutes, and 39 seconds ago
rootsecure.net
Threat Level: Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code
Found 7 days, 10 hours, 3 minutes, and 32 seconds ago
winextra.com
influence governments around the world. However not happy with this the industry is now looking to local governments on a state by state level. As reported by David Kravets on the Threat Level blog the MPAA and RIAA has been heavily involved with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in crafting new local laws that will declare music and video piracy as a public nuisance.
As innocent as that might sound that classification; which also includes drugs, gangs, prostitution and gambling, in fact allows them a very large leeway in how these so-called evil perpetrators are dealt with.
Found 7 days, 5 hours, 16 minutes, and 19 seconds ago
rwww.techdirt.com
Various laws have allowed local governments to declare specific property "detrimental to public health & safety" when that property becomes overrun with drugs, gangs, prostitution or gambling. However, the entertainment industry's hometown gov't in Los Angeles has now expanded the list to include music and movie piracy as well . Whatever you think of unauthorized copying of content, it's difficult to see how you can, with a straight face, claim that it is the equivalent of property being overrun with drugs, gangs prostitution or gambling.
Found 7 days, 4 hours, 14 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
parabasis.typepad.com
Look, I am no fan of Internet Piracy. Too many of my friends make their livings off of residuals to be super in favor of it. But I wouldn't call internet piracy "Detrimental to Public Heath [and] Safety" as Los Angeles County has done . That's just silly. Especially the health thing. I mean, I understand that it's a bunch of formal legal language. But still.
Now that it's a declared "public nuisance" property owners can be fined for allowing piracy of music and video to occur on their property.
Found 6 days, 11 hours, 46 minutes, and 43 seconds ago
blog.alexwhalen.com
+ Publius has a must-read post on why Iraq doomed the Clinton campaign. All of what he writes is true, but it is missing one thing: in the absence of a better alternative to Clinton, even with Iraq its likely she would have run. Unfortunately for her, and fortunately for us, she happened to find herself in a situation not all that different from many future NBA Hall of Famers in the 1990s - no matter how good they were relative to the rest of the league, they just couldn't beat Michael Jordan's Bulls.
Found 6 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
blog.actonline.org
CNetNews.com has a great interview on "the constant search for disruption" with Steve Jurvetson, managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Menlo Park, California.
AP reports that "Google Inc.'s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. - a deal that would lower the odds of Microsoft Corp. renewing its attempts to buy Yahoo."
According to Wired , "[l]ocal governments in California and the United States have long had the power to declare property a public nuisance when their owners allow their land to become denizens of drugs, gangs, prostitution and gambling.
Found 6 days, 40 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
bittorrentfordummies.com
Cox Blockers: Keeping Torrent Users from Sharing Files
Found 330 days, 7 hours, 14 minutes, and 11 seconds ago
fanpotai.wordpress.com
BitTorrent tracker TorrentSpy may have shut down last month , but that wasn't enough to prevent a federal judge from slapping the site with a $111 million fine yesterday. While BitTorrent didn't host any copyrighted materials on their own servers, the service did make it easy for users to illegally trade files. And the judge ruled that TorrentSpy's operators should pay $30,000 for each of the 3,699 instances of copyright infringement shown in the case.
Anyone familiar with sites like TorrentSpy knows that it's possible the site got off easy, as there were probably far more than 3699 copyrighted files made available through the site.
Found 7 days, 13 hours, 6 minutes, and 51 seconds ago
technologyinfo.wordpress.com
While the RIAA has waged a full-on legal assault against individual file-sharers, the MPAA has instead chosen to go after individual web sites. In 2006, the motion picture industry trade group filed copyright infringement lawsuits against a number of BitTorrent sites, including TorrentSpy and isoHunt. TorrentSpy lost, thanks to its admins' willful destruction of evidence, but isoHunt is fighting back. A recent filing in the case opposes the MPAA's motion for summary judgment, arguing that isoHunt is just another search engine.
Found 8 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
isc.incidents.org
I stole the headline directly from Mozilla. I am writing this diary entry for our readers in Vietnam. Apparently the Vietnamese Language pack for Firefox 2 has been compromised. About 16,667 downloads of the Vietnamese Language Pack have been downloaded since November of 2007, so the impact may or may not be significant. So be wary. If you have downloaded the Vietnamese Language Pack, you should know who you are, go to Mozilla's website and read all about it.
--
Joel Esler
http://www.
Found 8 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes, and 34 seconds ago
hardocp.com?feed=F6SbuZAfYLs
A U.S. District Judge in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of the Motion Picture Association of America. The courts ordered TorrentSpy to pay $111 million and to permanently close up shop.
U.S. District Judge Florence -Marie Cooper in Los Angeles, ruling in a case brought by the Motion Picture Association of America, said site operator Justin Bunnell and associates must pay the maximum $30,000 for "each of the 3,699 infringements shown." The case, producing what is among the largest fines in copyright history, was bolstered after the MPAA allegedly paid a hacker $15,000 for internal TorrentSpy e-mails and correspondence.
Found 7 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes, and 34 seconds ago
hardocp.com?feed=erf~4CGEUhM
You are not going to believe this but according to a report in the Congressional Quarterly, hundreds of laptops used by the U.S. Department of State are all missing .
Given the sensitive and often secret nature of data the State Department workers deal with, officials are bracing for repercussions like congressional hearings, according to CQ. That's what happened when a Veterans Administration official had a laptop stolen in 2006, IRS laptops went missing in 2001, and a State Department laptop containing the names of foreign agents working for the U.
Found 7 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes, and 36 seconds ago
technologyowl.com
Various laws have allowed local governments to declare specific property "detrimental to public health & safety" when that property becomes overrun with drugs, gangs, prostitution or gambling. However, the entertainment industry's hometown gov't in Los Angeles has now expanded the list to include music and movie piracy as well . Whatever you think of unauthorized copying of content, it's difficult to see how you can, with a straight face, claim that it is the equivalent of property being overrun with drugs, gangs prostitution or gambling.
Found 7 days, 4 hours, 45 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
guy.tumblr.com
Pirate Music, Lose Your House
Found 6 days, 7 hours, 28 minutes, and 3 seconds ago
PrivacyDigest.com
Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code - Via Threat Level :
Mozilla, the maker of the open source Firefox browser, is redoubling its efforts to check user created add-ons for viruses and Trojans after it discovered that a language pack on its official add-on page had been infected for months with rogue code, the organization reported Wednesday.
Starting in mid-Feburary, Vietnamese users of Mozilla's open source Firefox browser were at risk of infection from malicious Trojan Horse code seemingly accidentally embedded in a language pack available on its Add-ons site .
Found 6 days, 6 hours, 44 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
community.vlogmap.org
CBS is bragging that when it acquires CNET, as it announced it would do this morning for $1.8 billion in cash, it will instantly become "one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the U.S., with a combined 54 million unique users per month, and approximately 200 million users worldwide." The funny thing is, in terms of online video, I actually think CBS is way ahead of its supposedly tech-savvy adopted kid.
Though CBS' partnership-driven Audience Network super-distribution strategy isn't quite as cool as Hulu's embeds for everyone, the network does have some original ideas about getting TV online and some gumption about executing them.
Found 16 days, 21 hours, and 15 seconds ago
hardocp.com?feed=kBeJPqvBb7k
You are not going to believe this but according to a report in the Congressional Quarterly, hundreds of laptops used by the U.S. Department of State are all missing .
Given the sensitive and often secret nature of data the State Department workers deal with, officials are bracing for repercussions like congressional hearings, according to CQ. That's what happened when a Veterans Administration official had a laptop stolen in 2006, IRS laptops went missing in 2001, and a State Department laptop containing the names of foreign agents working for the U.
Found 7 days, 15 hours, 39 minutes, and 34 seconds ago
hardocp.com?feed=jN0Q18ntc2E
A U.S. District Judge in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of the Motion Picture Association of America. The courts ordered TorrentSpy to pay $111 million and to permanently close up shop.
U.S. District Judge Florence -Marie Cooper in Los Angeles, ruling in a case brought by the Motion Picture Association of America, said site operator Justin Bunnell and associates must pay the maximum $30,000 for "each of the 3,699 infringements shown." The case, producing what is among the largest fines in copyright history, was bolstered after the MPAA allegedly paid a hacker $15,000 for internal TorrentSpy e-mails and correspondence.
Found 7 days, 15 hours, 5 minutes, and 42 seconds ago
hardocp.com?feed=JluEInkhjow
OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced two new Reaper HPC solutions for enthusiasts upgrading to next generation of cutting-edge platforms. The PC3-14400 and PC3-12800 Reaper HPC Series are now available in both 2GB and 4GB dual channel kits to meet the specific needs of customized gaming systems or workstations, offering perfect compatibility with the latest platforms and chipsets at the height of DDR3 performance.
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